Who does the writing on AtV?
TL;DREpisodes work from an outline, usually made by James, with Ben adding the news from the weekly leads meeting, while the hosts ad-lib the rest, including puns and singing.
Well, AtV... in fact, is there a script around here? I can show you guys how it works. See how terrible our printer is, too. We essentially start with an outline. So it will say stuff like very basic lines that we kind of ad-lib over. Like, here's the next segment. Thank you for that segment. And then Sandi and I fill in from there with our sparkling personalities. Usually James puts together the basic outline. I will go in and I will add the news, because, back up a little bit, I attend the weekly leads meeting Monday morning with all the other directors and execs and bigwigs, and so I get an idea of what's actually happening in the week. And I distill that into the news, what we're going to do in the intro and the outro. So I kind of write those segments. James puts together the general outline, although Jared did it last week, and he actually specifically wrote jokes into it and stuff for us, which we ruined because we are ruiners.
I learned why writers drink.
Yeah, so it's just an outline. It's not verbatim. So we work from that outline. Sandi and I just have fun ad-libbing. The puns and the singing are all spur of the moment. I will confess that I drink one or two sugar-free Monster energy drinks before the episode, which genuinely does make me more personable. Sandi is just always like that.
These past two episodes, I feel like, have been full of life, to be honest. It's been a good time.
Yeah, we shot the last two at night instead of in the morning. And it seems to be working. All except the part where we're here at 8 o'clock at night.